Anyone who has been reading my weblog for a while knows that I rarely participate in the ‘my OS is better than yours’ religious wars that have been going for the last 20 years of computing. Frankly, it’s a boring argument.

Without a doubt, my day to day life resides in a Windows world, but I firmly believe that OS/X on the Mac is awesome operating system that really encapsulates a computing ‘experience’ rather than just running applications. In some ways it reminds me of the Amiga - it was just fun to use and got the job done.

Unfortunately, I just don’t have the free time to explore like I used to, and my homebrew Mac that I built in 2002 has been sitting in the garage for the last year. While I’ve been toying with the idea of bringing it back into my home office, despite how it sounds (with computers all over my house and car), I’ve really been trying to simplify things and reduce the number of computers rather than add more technology to the mix.

However with the apparent upcoming annoucement of a headless Mac for $499:

We’re looking at likely a 1.25GHz processor, 256MB RAM, 40-80GB hard drive, the typical connectivity (USB/Firewire/ethernet/modem), and a combo optical drive with support for Airport Extreme, VGA and DVI. Apparently, the new Mac is ‘incredibly small,’ with a height approximating the 1.73” Xserve height. That’s slim, all right.

It’s extremely tempting to get one just to play with.